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  • #152019
    Anonymous
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    Hi all,

    Schedule
    The following listing uses a set of codes:
    W = Wednesday, T = Thursday, F = Friday, S = Saturday, U = Sunday
    and
    M = Morning (08:00), A = Afternoon (13:00), E = Evening (19:00)

    The following shows which slots the events are running in. See here for information about 5E Arcanis.

    LA – ARG Events
    LA-A2-HP11 Night of a Thousand Screams: W-A; T-MAE (2 tables per slot)
    LA-A2-HP12 The Chosen: W-E; T-AE; F-M (2 tables per slot)
    LA-A3-AP0 Echoes from the Depths: Friday Afternoon and Evening (8 tables)
    LA-BI Black Hearts, Red Blades: Saturday Afternoon and Evening (8 tables)

    LA – 5E Events
    LA-Open HP1 or HP2: W-AE (3 tables per slot)
    LA-Open HP3 or HP4: T-MA (3 tables per slot)
    LA-Open HP5 or HP6: T-E; F-M (3 tables per slot)
    LA-Open Any*: S-M; U-M (3 tables per slot)
    LA-A3-AP0 Echoes from the Depths: Friday Afternoon and Evening (6 tables)
    LA-BI Black Hearts, Red Blades: Saturday Afternoon and Evening (6 tables)

    * Any released 5E Arcanis adventure that is one round.

    WH Events
    WH-A: T-ME; F-AE; S-M (1 table per slot)
    WH-B: T-A; F-MA; S-MA (1 table per slot)
    WH-C: T-E; F-ME; S-AE (1 table per slot)

    Adventure blurbs can be found here

    Volunteering

    Volunteer rewards are:
    4 slots: Free badge
    8 slots: Free badge and one of: 1/4 hotel room, 2nd Free Badge, vouchers (typically $60)

    To sign up, send me an email at james.zwiers+origins2016@gmail.com. In the email, please indicate the following:
    – Name
    – Reward Selection
    – Events you are volunteering for

    I will accept the emails into my assigned slots on a first-received, first-accepted basis. After I go through each batch, I’ll be updating the totals below for remaining slots. Additionally, if a slot fills up, I’ll do my best to help each person find a number of slots to work to get the reward they indicated they would like.

    Event Volunteering
    All events, aside from LA-A3-AP0 Echoes from the Depths and LA-BI Black Hearts, Red Blades are one-round events; LA-BI Black Hearts, Red Blades is a two-round event, you must volunteer for both rounds or none.

    LA-A3-AP0 Echoes from the Depths is different. There are both LARP elements and BI elements to this event; I need people to indicate which part(s) they are volunteering for. Each of the two parts is equivalent to a one-round event for the purposes of volunteering.

    Judges Required
    Codes are as above; the number of occurrences of the time code is judge spaces remaining. Numeral codes are used for the two multi-round events to remind you how many slots equivalent the volunteer space counts as. These counts will be updated every day or two.

    LA – Combined Event
    LA-A3-AP0 Echoes from the Depths: LARP-1

    LA – ARG Events
    LA-A2-HP11 Night of a Thousand Screams: T-E
    LA-A2-HP12 The Chosen: T-A
    LA-A3-AP0 Echoes from the Depths: BI-11
    LA-BI Black Hearts, Red Blades:

    LA – 5E Events
    LA-Open HP1 or HP2: W-AE
    LA-Open HP3 or HP4: T-A
    LA-Open HP5 or HP6:
    LA-Open Any*:
    LA-A3-AP0 Echoes from the Depths: BI-11
    LA-BI Black Hearts, Red Blades: BI-22

    WH Events
    WH-A:
    WH-B:
    WH-C:

    Adventures Sent
    LA-A3-AP0 Echoes from the Depths
    LA-A2-HP11 Night of a Thousand Screams
    LA-A2-HP12 The Chosen

    #269919
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Thanks for the early head’s up.

    2 Questions:
    1) Is the LA-Special the LARP/LARP-Adventure combo? (Just curious if there is a LARP aspect to Origins 2016)
    2) Is there no Witch Hunter LARP?

    John

    #269921
    drafit
    Participant

    Hello John,

    There is no Arcanis LARP planned for Origins 2016.

    Witch Hunter LARPS are run by another group, not PCI.

    #269922
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Thanks for the early head’s up.

    2 Questions:
    1) Is the LA-Special the LARP/LARP-Adventure combo? (Just curious if there is a LARP aspect to Origins 2016)
    2) Is there no Witch Hunter LARP?

    John

    Hi John,

    Henry answered regarding number 2; more information about question one will be released once things are moving closer. That event is still under planning, so I can’t reveal more information about it yet.

    James

    #271710
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    First round of updates are live; further updates are pending well… further updates.

    #271959
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Final schedule is now posted.

    Additionally, volunteer signup is now OPEN.

    #272017
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Reminder: Volunteer signup is open. Some slots are filling up quickly; so get me your volunteering requests sooner if you have particular schedules you want.

    #272252
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Just a reminder to folks; we need people to step up to help run events or they don’t happen.

    The actual Origins rewards will be made available shortly; so the sooner you sign up the sooner I’ll be able to pass along that information.

    #272316
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    The first round of emails about how to obtain the volunteer rewards will be going out today.

    If you intend to volunteer and would like to claim a share of a hotel room please step forward sooner rather than later; GAMA needs the information for the bookings soon.

    #272326
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    James I want to make sure I understand your system. See my comments below. Is this current?

    Judges Required
    Codes are as above; the number of occurrences of the time code is judge spaces remaining. Numeral codes are used for the two multi-round events to remind you how many slots equivalent the volunteer space counts as. These counts will be updated every day or two.

    LA – Combined Event
    LA-A3-AP0 Echoes from the Depths: LARP-1111111 Are you saying you need 7 judges here?

    LA – ARG Events
    LA-A2-HP11 Night of a Thousand Screams: T-ME
    LA-A2-HP12 The Chosen: T-AA
    LA-A3-AP0 Echoes from the Depths: BI-1111 Are you saying you need 4 judges here?
    LA-BI Black Hearts, Red Blades: BI-2222 Are you saying you need 4 judges here?

    #272338
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    James I want to make sure I understand your system. See my comments below. Is this current?

    Judges Required
    Codes are as above; the number of occurrences of the time code is judge spaces remaining. Numeral codes are used for the two multi-round events to remind you how many slots equivalent the volunteer space counts as. These counts will be updated every day or two.

    LA – Combined Event
    LA-A3-AP0 Echoes from the Depths: LARP-1111111 Are you saying you need 7 judges here?

    LA – ARG Events
    LA-A2-HP11 Night of a Thousand Screams: T-ME
    LA-A2-HP12 The Chosen: T-AA
    LA-A3-AP0 Echoes from the Depths: BI-1111 Are you saying you need 4 judges here?
    LA-BI Black Hearts, Red Blades: BI-2222 Are you saying you need 4 judges here?

    Yup. The number codes just indicate the number of slots that signup is equivalent to. As all the normal modules are single round, they just use letter codes.

    #272343
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    James,

    If you are that short of judges, put me down for judging, any and all that you need a judge for – including the BI. Just let me know the schedule you need me for. I don’t normally judge LARPs can we talk about your needs for a LARP judge off line?

    Eric Hughes

    #272344
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Open judge slots have been updated. For people who want to judge, please do send me an email. I’m trying to keep all of the coordination in a single channel so I don’t miss anyone, or forget to send anyone information that is required.

    #272370
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Be advised, if anyone is intending to volunteer and take the hotel space reward (and has not already done so), the deadline for that is Wed 27 April (as informed today).

    Remaining slots are up to date as of ‘now’.

    #272389
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Is there a logic to no events Saturday morning? Is it to allow the judge pool to recover? If so, I assume the odds of getting a table of a night of a thousand screams off then as an open table would be frowned upon? Is other open gaming allowed then?

    I usually arrive Thursday night, game Friday and Sat (and maybe sun morning) and then leave Sunday. With this schedule, that leaves me with a hole on Saturday morning (which I don’t mind so much), but unable to get one of the premiers (which I do). Any way to fix that?

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